Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 181, issue C, 2026

A few good masks: Mask manufacturing and supply networks in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kieran Byrne, Florence Kondylis, John Loeser and Denis Mukama

NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

Eduardo Hidalgo, Erik Hornung and Pablo Selaya

Where has all the dynamism gone? Productivity growth in China’s manufacturing sector, 1998–2013

Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang and Yifan Zhang

Higher education expansion and the rural–urban gap in secondary schooling and labor outcomes: Evidence from China’s 1999 reform

Ruoming Zhang

Leveraging women’s views to influence gendered attitudes to women working: Evidence from an online intervention in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras Suárez and Diahhadi Setyonaluri

Labor market effects of exporter pricing behavior: Evidence from a developing economy

Abhishek Kumar and Sushanta Mallick

The effects of cash and group therapy in the context of conflict: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Ethiopia

Melissa Hidrobo, Harold Alderman, Negussie Deyessa, Daniel O. Gilligan, Parthu Kalva, Jessica Leight, Michael Mulford and Heleene Tambet

Heatwaves and delivery practices: The effects of extreme temperature in Brazilian maternity wards

Rafael Parfitt and Nicolas Goulart

Cooperation between national armies: Evidence from the Sahel borders

Marion Richard and Oliver Vanden Eynde

When the fire ends: Straw burning, regulation, and pollution substitution

Hai Hong and Kevin Chen

Weapon supply shocks, violence, and migration

Julio Acuna

Rethinking fiscal rules in resource-rich economies

Salomon Garcia-Villegas and Rodrigo Heresi

Strategic emissions in the rain

Runhao Zhao and Ye Yuan

Foreign technology and informal employment: Evidence from Mexico

Maria Bas and Pamela Bombarda

Psychological barriers to participation in the labor market: Evidence from rural Ghana

Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque, Crick Lund, Heather Schofield, Vincent Somville and Jingyao Wei

Corrigendum to “Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model” [J. Dev. Econ. Vol. 171 (2024), 103348]

Rainald Borck and Peter Mulder

Participatory teaching improves learning outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania

Martina Jakob, Konstantin Büchel, Daniel Steffen and Aymo Brunetti

Access to digital credit for smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Ghana

Dean Karlan, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Utsav Manjeer and Christopher Udry

‘Made in Dignity’: The redistributive impact of Fair Trade

Jean-Marie Baland, Cédric Duprez, Wouter Gelade and Francois Woitrin

Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia–Herzegovina

Magnus Neubert and Stefan Nikolić

The distribution game: Evidence from 200,000 campaign donors

Caíque Melo

Social information, advice and altruistic behavior by underprivileged children: Experimental evidence from Colombia

Natalia Candelo, Jingping Gu and Sherry Xin Li

Flexible contracting and quality upgrading under market volatility: Experimental evidence from Senegal

Joshua W. Deutschmann, Tanguy Bernard and Ouambi Yameogo

Inattentive Citizens: Impact of elections on political interest across 93 countries

Laurence Go

Racial self-classification, group consciousness, and public employment representation

Diogo Baerlocher and Rodrigo Schneider

English's significance: Exam performance by subject and future income in China

Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Yu Qin, Qiuyi Wang and Jing Wu

Raising grievances to the state: The political economic effects of anti-corruption crackdowns on labor activism in China

Huiyi Chen

Persistence of the spillover effects of violence and educational trajectories

María Padilla-Romo and Cecilia Peluffo

Walking the Talk? Bank climate commitments and green lending in emerging markets

Mariana Bernad, Ralph De Haas and Juan Pablo Rud

Culture, risk-taking, and public leadership: Evidence from Chinese villages

Justin Jihao Hong

Volume 180, issue C, 2026

Beliefs, information sharing, and mental health care use among university students

Alisher Batmanov, Idaliya Grigoryeva, Bruno Calderón-Hernández, Roberto González-Téllez and Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez

Get in the zone: The risk-adjusted welfare effects of data-driven vs. administrative borders for index insurance zones

Ella Kirchner, Elinor Benami, Andrew Hobbs, Michael R. Carter and Zhenong Jin

The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence

Jeronimo Carballo, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano and Christian Volpe Martincus

Large firms and the intensive margin of labor informality evidence from an enforcement intervention in Peru

Mariano Bosch, Guillermo Cruces, Stephanie González and María Teresa Silva-Porto

Public procurement and firms: Evidence from Kenya

Justice Tei Mensah, Peter Chacha Wankuru and Benard K. Kirui

Feeling the same heat? Urban–rural inequalities in adapting to extreme temperatures via electricity consumption

Caiquan Bai, Jing Cao, Ming Huang, Chen Xi and Peng Zhang

Poverty and parental discipline

Mo Alloush, Emily Conover and Susan Godlonton

A parsimonious approach to predicting income distributions

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Marta Schoch, Christoph Lakner and Minh Cong Nguyen

Corrigendum to “The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan's local councils” [J. Dev. Econ. Volume 174, May 2025, 103451]

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Yu-Hsin Ho, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee and Jin-Tan Liu

Connected national capital: Corporations in colonial and independent Egypt

Cihan Artunç and Mohamed Saleh

Bring a friend: Leveraging financial and peer support to improve women’s reproductive agency in India

S. Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Mahesh Karra

Expressways, market access, and industrial development in China: Using walled-city panel instrumental variables of minimum spanning tree

Kecen Jing and Wen-Chi Liao

The global software production network

Carlo Birkholz and David Gomtsyan

Do resource rents drive urbanization and structural transformation? A global analysis

Qing Huang, Victoria Wenxin Xie and Wei You

Frosty climate, icy relationships: Cold and intimate partner violence in Peru

Katie Bollman, Judhajit Chakraborty, Leah Lakdawala and Eduardo Nakasone

CO2 emission regulation and generation allocation with heterogeneous coal-fired generators

Zhiyuan Chen, Rong Luo and Li Su

Informal fiscal systems in developing countries

Shan Aman-Rana, Clement Minaudier and Sandip Sukhtankar

Resisting social conformity pressure: Impact of a gender norms intervention for adolescents in Somalia

Rajdev Brar, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Munshi Sulaiman

Firms under fire! How insecurity affects formal firms’ existence

Matteo Neri-Lainé

Kinship ties in politics and response to extreme weather shocks

Charles Irvin S. Siriban

Aging in Haze

Runhao Zhao, Ye Yuan, Chong Liu and Junjian Yi

Labor market consequences of homicides: A gender perspective from Mexico

Lorenzo Aldeco Leo, Matteo Ghilardi and Hugo Tuesta